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Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book, including: why the ancient Greeks were mad about olive oil, who Pythagoras was, why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus, and how the Greeks invented the first computer, vending machine and death-ray. This is another fascinating title in the fantastically funny history series from the acclaimed Tony Robinson.

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Synopsis

Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders! Greeks by Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Greeks! It's history, but not as we know it!

About the Author

Tony presents Channel 4's archaeology series "Time Team", and played Baldrick in "Blackadder". He also devised and wrote four series of the BBC's "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men" in which he played the Sheriff of Nottingham.